The checking of the presence of the member before assigning it is, in my opinion, quite ugly.
Kohana has a useful function to make selecting parameters simple.
You can make your own like so...
function arrayGet($array, $key, $default = NULL)
{
return isset($array[$key]) ? $array[$key] : $default;
}
And then do something like...
$page = arrayGet($_GET, 'p', 1);